Britain’s best unsigned blues rockers come to The Met on Saturday, 7th March, to perform music from their acclaimed seventh independent release “Feeding the Machine”. “Original, enthusiastic & passionate blues as interpreted by the likes of Led Zeppelin & the wider world is catching on to The Idle Hands” – R2 Magazine Voted Best UK Blues […]

As ever Bury Met has a fair sprinkling of forthcoming blues gigs . . . including Laurence Jones, The Idle Hands, Absolution, Mud Morganfield and Moreland & Arbuckle. Check out the website for more information: http://themet.biz/ We’ll highlight some of the shows as they come up.

Tuesday, September 10, 8pm THE HOAX Plus support Tickets: £14 advance Venue: Main Theatre (standing) Arguably the most influential British Blues band of the last 20 years, The Hoax blasted through the 90s forging a loyal and widespread following and firmly established a cult status as one of the most exciting live acts of the […]

http://youtu.be/SYIJpT_iTyI Bury’s own Ged Wilson has a home-town gig on Friday, 12th July. Expect to hear tunes from his new album, “What’s Going On?” Full information to be found here: http://themet.biz/event/ged+wilson/1659/

Friday, May 3, 8.30pm ANIMALS AND FRIENDS Tickets: £15 Venue: Main Theatre In 1964 a wave of new energetic rock and roll swept over the youth of the world. On the crest of this wave was The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and of course The Animals. From the banks of the River Tyne came the […]

Saturday, November 3, 9pm THE STUMBLE Tickets: £12 Venue: Studio Theatre The Stumble mix uncomplicated guitar solos with the powerful voice of Paul Melville and you’ve got a band that even a diehard blues fundamentalist would succumb to. Playing their own songs alongside well chosen covers, the band perform strong arrangements with vigour and passion. […]

Renowned country-folk-blues singer-songwriter-guitarist Malcolm Holcombe announces UK & Irish dates for September & October in support of his new album Down The River. Only one date in the northwest though “..stripped-down Americana at its best… Like all great storytellers he knows how to wring every ounce of emotion from his material” Acoustic “Listen to a […]

Hans Theessink is back out on the road on a solo tour; he has two dates in the northwest coming up. Fri. 21.09. Bury, The Met – http://themet.biz Thur.27.09. Liverpool, Philharmonic Hall, Rodewald Suite – www.liverpoolphil.com Hans is promoting his latest CD Delta Time. Delta Time Recorded in […]

Friday, 13th July, 2012 – The Met, Bury Guitarist Chris Corcoran leads his trio through a set of dynamite instrumentals at The Met, Bury on Friday 13th July. Jamie Lawrence on double bass and Rob Pokorny on drums are stalwarts of the London blues scene and these three musicians complement each other with an almost […]

Thursday, 31st May, 8 pm TRISTAN MACKAY BAND Supported by Andrew James O’Brien Tickets: £8 advance / £10 door Venue: Studio Theatre (standing) Busker Tristan Mackay self-recorded and released his first two E.P’s – “Tales from a Bedroom Orchestra” and “Live from the Lounge”. Although these were produced and sold from his bedroom studio, his […]

Friday, February 3, 8pm PRESTON REED Tickets: £10 / £8 concession / £8 members Venue: Studio Theatre Preston Reed is a New York visionary credited with reinventing the acoustic guitar. He fuses chord-based grooves, soaring melodic runs and polyrhythmic percussion with his breathtaking two-handed style. Unlike many instrumentalists, the power and depth of Reed’s original […]

Wednesday, November 30, 8pm SIMON MCBRIDE Tickets: £12.50 Venue: Studio Theatre Former Young Guitarist of The Year and now fully-fledged blues-rock virtuoso, Irishman Simon McBride comes off playing to thousands of people each night when he opened for Joe Satriani on his UK tour, to playing more modestly-sized venues; but it represents the start of […]

Monday, November 21, 7.30pm THE CHRIS CORCORAN TRIO Tickets: FREE Venue: Automatic Restaurant Chris Corcoran is one of the most sought after guitarists on the UK blues and music scene. After playing with many great blues band, notably West Weston’s Bluesonics, he now runs the Chris Corcoran Trio, which released its debut CD, The Getaway […]

http://youtu.be/IA-75H-2xKw To mark the European release of DELTAPHONIC, Canadian blues duo Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley will be touring the UK and Ireland in August and September 2011. There are two Northwest dates (excluding the Colne Festival). 09 Sep – The Met, Bury 18 Sep – The Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth http://www.braithwaiteandwhiteley.com http://youtu.be/IA-75H-2xKw